Posted at 06/02/20 3:48 PM
NEW YORK, United States - New York was under a curfew that would last until early Tuesday morning, officials said, after looters raided stores in central Manhattan, targeting some of the city's top retailers.
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With the United States preoccupied by the sobering reality of more than 100,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus, China has pushed in recent weeks to move troops into disputed territory with India, continue aggressive actions in the South China Sea and rewrite the rules of how it will control Hong Kong.
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Taiwan, the United States and Japan issued a joint statement on Monday celebrating their trilateral partnership and promising to seek greater cooperation amid ongoing Chinese efforts to diplomatically isolate the self-ruled island.
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Police fired tear gas outside the White House late Sunday as major US cities were put under curfew to suppress rioting as anti-racism protestors again took to the streets to voice fury at police brutality.
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China will attack Taiwan if there is no other way of stopping it from becoming independent, one of the country's most senior generals said on Friday, a rhetorical escalation between China and the democratically ruled island Beijing claims as its own.
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TikTok's poaching of Disney's Kevin Mayer to be its CEO was just the most visible part of a broader strategy by its Chinese owner to shift its center of power away from China at a time of rising global tensions, several people familiar with the plans said.
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Hong Kong's government warned Washington that withdrawing its special US status, which has underpinned the city as a global financial hub, could be a "double-edged sword" and urged the United States to stop interfering in internal affairs.
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China will encourage the people of Taiwan to join it in opposing the island's independence and promoting China's "reunification", Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday, a move likely to worsen Beijing's poor relations with Taipei.
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China's parliament said it would introduce a proposal Friday for a national security law in Hong Kong at its annual session, in a move the US warned would be "highly destabilizing" for the financial hub.
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Taiwan wants dialogue with China but cannot accept its proposal for "one country, 2 systems", President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday after being inaugurated for her second and final term in office.
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